This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

The smallest country in the world.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.